From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 07:05:54 MST
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, jeff davis wrote:
> >
> > [snip], because clearly water can't burn.
> > But a techno-weenie like myself
> > gets chills up my spine because I know that it can.
>
> Care to elaborate on this Jeff? I'm sitting here
> wondering precisely why one can't oxidize H2O into
> H2O2 (with energy released) and am a little too lazy
> tonight to get out a chemistry book to lookup
> the delta-G's and delta-H's.
Actually, decomposition of H2O2 to H20 and O2 releases energy, so the
reverse should require an energy input.
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